Everything and nothing

 Somehow I erased a bunch of photographs and everything I'd struggled to write about a phone call from a friend in New York, how sorry I was not to have been there, still living there, not to have experienced this crisis of Storm Sandy...she slept under 7 blankets and still managed to keep being productive since she was putting work into two shows...   how, in all that uncertainty life still went on and galleries had openings and she got well deserved praise is unimaginable...   She'd read about global warning in the 70's so this wasn't entirely a surprise for her, but I honestly can't imagine what happened....or how it could have happened except that the environment truly has changed and the sea level is higher and storms are fiercer.  Her mantra was wake up...................      

It was depressing that climate change was hardly a topic in the election, but it's easy to see why since so many people conveniently deny the scientific evidence..... Hopefully President Obama will be able to make inroads in this dire problem....before we sleep-walk ourselves into even worse problems..

Meanwhile, my life goes on as I put one foot in front of another completing one project and then another...

Bogie had his teeth cleaned and two pulled and is on pain medication and anti=biotics...it cost a fortune, but now he can be a therapy dog again since he doesn't smell so ghastly...

and I have a great dentist...three more serious problems to take care of...

              (There is a collection of books, take one, give one, and I took a thick volume of Pablo Neruda odes that I lay, reading in the sun today...I have a stomach ache...)

and a doctor who worries about colon cancer for someone like me with such a long history of colitis...even though my colon has made a remarkable recovery...I saw the photographs...

The windows need plastic because it's getting cold.
Most of the leaves have fallen.
The dog is sleeping and I'm making no sense.

This fellow's dog peed on his leg. They were from New Hampshire and the dogs had only been in lakes...so the bay was a great treat, but the beach had no available trees or bushes...